[help-texinfo] Re: xml id characters

[Per Bothner]

Karl Berry wrote:
>     How well does texinfo handle Unicode characters?
>
> As far as makeinfo goes, it just passes along whatever it sees in the
> input to the output, and dumps the @documentencoding value into the
> output as well.  It doesn't try to interpret characters in any way.
> No doubt it'll be a problem at some point, but it seems to have more or
> less sufficed so far.

Of course you have to known the encoding if you want to check validity
of base attributes, though for id attributes I guess you can cheat and
assume that any bytes with the high bit set are probably ok, at least
in terms of conflicting with delimiters etc.

Texinfo doesn't support UTF-8, according to the manual.
That is arguably a problem.  In fact, UTF-8 should probably be the
default: It is the default for HTML, XML, and at least some GNU/Linux
systems (including Fedora).
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